There Used To Be A Boardwalk Here

This is the first time that I have seen this video. I graduated from Far Rockaway High School in 1971. I lived on Beach 27th street right off of Seagirt Blvd, then moved to Wavecrest on Bch 19th Street. Thank you for the memories and the song and pictures. They brought up alot of lost memoreis.

Uhhh... it's very odd to see photos of mine show up in someone else's Y/T video.

I really enjoyed your video of Rockaway. I was one of those kids from Manhattan who came to the beach to spend the summers, and to paint beach shells, ride my bicycle on the boardwalk, and play Skeeball at Jack and Lenny's. I now live in California, and the beach is quite lovely, but they will never compare to the memories of those halcyon days spent at Rockaway. Thanks for helping me remember exactly what it looked like.

I really wish that they would take interest in fixing up the beach. It has so much potential to be beautiful again.

I absolutely agree...summers at Rockaway, what could be better?!
And I like keeping it all as I remember. I didn't live far from that arcade on B 35th. We were on B 43/44. It's where I did my first "spin-art" and perfected skee-ball.

Thanks for video. Brings back a lot of memories.
My parents were summer renters and I used to love taking a morning ride on my bike up and down that boardwalk. And those old bungalows that were particular to the blocks right before the beach. Great photos...oh and your song is growing on me.

Didn't Curley's have caged birds singing at the hotel entrance on the boardwalk?

Very well done, nice song, too. This kind of decline is happening all over the country. To me, it proves the nation is slipping away. The very best of America is now a lost world.

WAT THEY NEED TO DO IS BUILD A OFF ROADING RING OR SOMETHING WITH ALL THIS LAND THEYY HAVE FREE THERES LIKE AT LEAST 90 PEOPLE THAT LIVE IN ROCKAWAY WITH DIRTBIKES ATV'S AND SUCH AND ALL YOU SEE IS COPS CHASING AFTER PEOPLE LIKE REALLY STOP YOU ARE NOT GOIN TO CATCH DEM THEY HAVE OFF ROADIN VEICHELS SO DO US ALL A FAVOR AND JUST HOW YOU BULT THAT SKATE PARK DOWN ON 92ND BUILD US AN OFF ROADING CIRCUIT ITS NOT EXPENSIVE AT ALL ALL U HAVE TO DO IS MOVE DIRT AROUND AND MAKE A COUPLE OF JUMPS! THANx

YES...I don't remember the name...but the back of the theatre was covered with a canvas/tent like roof that was opened on clear nights in the summer..